Protoconites minor
No picture of Protoconites minor was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protoconites minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoconitesPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 110 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 525.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Protoconites minor on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Cambrian50%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Protoconites minor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protoconites minor and its relatives
CambrianWhere Protoconites minor and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Aggregatosphaera miaoheensis1 site
- Aldanella attleborensis1 site
- Anabarites trisulcatus1 site
- Anomalophyton zhangzhongyingi1 site
- Baculiphyca taeniata1 site
- Beltanelliformis brunsae1 site
- Calyptrina striata1 site
- Conotheca subcurvata1 site
- Cucullus fraudulentus1 site
- Doushantuophyton lineare1 site
- Doushantuophyton quyuani1 site
- Enteromorphites siniansis1 site
- Glomulus filamentum1 site
- Helcionella antiqua1 site
- Jiuqunaoella simplicis1 site
- Konglingiphyton1 site
- Konglingiphyton erecta1 site
- Lapworthella1 site
- Liulingjitaenia alloplecta1 site
- Longifuniculum dissolutum1 site
- Miaohephyton bifurcatum1 site
- Micrhystridium1 site
- Protohertzina1 site
- Sinocylindra yunnanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protoconites minor, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Fossil association from the Lower Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, Hubei, south China1
- Macroscopic carbonaceous compressions in a terminal Proterozoic shale: a systematic reassessment of the Miaohe biota, south China1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protoconites minor was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protoconites minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoconites minor was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtoconites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen et al. 1994